Capacity Building

Malawi Training Advances Regional Effort to Strengthen African Research Visibility

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund / By / September 29, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance, in collaboration with the Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN), delivered a three-day Repository Stewardship Programme workshop in Salima, Malawi, from 7–9 September 2026. The training equipped librarians with practical skills to manage institutional repositories, strengthening Malawi’s contribution to a wider regional effort to make African research more accessible and discoverable. The workshop …

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Strengthening African NREN Communications and Business Development through AfricaConnect4 Regional Training

AfricaConnect, Capacity Building / By / September 29, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance convened a regional Business Development and Communications Workshop in Gaborone, Botswana, from 21 to 25 September 2026, hosted by BotsREN. Organised under AfricaConnect4, co-funded by the European Union, the five-day workshop aimed to strengthen the capacity of UbuntuNet Alliance member National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) to define, communicate and grow the value …

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Beyond graduation: Supporting Africa’s lifelong learners

Capacity Building, Partnership Programme / By / September 30, 2026

Join UbuntuNet Alliance and Astria Learning on 30 September 2026 for a webinar exploring how universities can support learners throughout their careers. Graduation is a major milestone, but the need to learn continues long afterwards. As careers, technologies and industries change, people need opportunities to develop new skills, update their knowledge and return to education …

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Rwanda Higher Education Institutions Join the Drive to Make Africa’s Research Output Discoverable and Accessible

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Stories / By / September 27, 2026

Librarians from Higher Education Institutions across Rwanda converged on the capital city, Kigali, to attend the 3-day Research Repository Stewardship Workshop from September 14-16, 2026. The workshop, facilitated by Prof Madara Ogot, the CEO of UbuntuNet Alliance, seeks to equip the participants with the tools and skills to strengthen existing open research repositories (OIRs) or …

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Zimbabwe Librarians Pledge to Increase the Visibility of their Research Output

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Stories / By / August 30, 2026

Zimbabwian librarians attending the Research Repository Stewardship Programme (RRSP) workshop from August 26-28, 2026, in Harare, Zimbabwe pledged to either develop or strengthen their open institutional repositories to increase the visibility and discoverability of their nation’s research output. The workshop, attended by 28 librarians from across Zimbabwe, was facilitated by Prof Madara Ogot, the CEO …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Builds Member NRENs’ Regional Capacity for eduroam and Identity Federation

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, OPAR, Open Science Workshops, Stories / By / August 31, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance successfully conducted a five-day eduroam and Identity Federation Training in Kampala, Uganda, from 17 to 21 August 2026. The workshop brought together 25 network and systems engineers from 13 member National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) across Eastern and Southern Africa, strengthening the technical and institutional capacity needed to support secure, federated digital …

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UbuntuNet Alliance Equips NRENs to Deliver DSpace-as-a-Service

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Open Science Workshops / By / August 25, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance, hosted by the Rwanda Education and Research Network (RwEdNet), held a regional DSpace-as-a-Service (DSaaS) Engineering Bootcamp in Kigali, Rwanda, from 3-7 August 2026. The five-day systems engineering training formed part of the project “Unlocking Potential: Elevating Open Institutional Repositories in Africa for Global Impact,” funded by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) through its …

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Uganda Librarians Strengthen Repository Stewardship Skills to Boost Research Visibility

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Open Science Workshops / By / August 25, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance, in collaboration with the Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU), held a three-day Research Repository Stewardship Programme in Kampala, Uganda, from 12-14 August 2026. The training formed part of the project “Unlocking Potential: Elevating Open Institutional Repositories in Africa for Global Impact,” funded by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) through its Network …

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BERNET Hosts the Second French-Language Open Institutional Repository Stewardship Workshop

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Stories / By / August 24, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance has conducted the eighth Librarian Capacity-Building Workshop on Modern Repository Management and Metadata Curation under the project “Unlocking Potential: Elevating Open Institutional Repositories in Africa for Global Impact”, supported by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI). The workshop took place in Burundi from 17–19 August 2026 and forms part of the wider series of …

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Kenya Librarians Commit to Strengthening their Open Institutional Repositories for Increased Impact

Capacity Building, IOI Network Adoption Fund, Stories / By / August 10, 2026

UbuntuNet Alliance mounted its fifth Research Repository Stewardship Programme (RRSP) workshop from August 5-7, 2026, in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop, attended by 51 librarians from across Kenya and facilitated by Prof Madara Ogot, the CEO of the Alliance, was unique in that all participating institutions had a working Open Institutional Repository. The focus of the …

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